Surfaces. Layers. Overlaps. The sixth edition of Opera Festival ran from 20 to 23 August in Milo, Sicily: a new stage carved out of the forest, a wider Ballroom, and six thousand people listening under an active volcano.
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COEVAL at Flow Festival 2026
Twenty-one editions in, Helsinki in August belongs to Flow. A former power plant, ten stages, forty-five kitchens. Names we loved: Florence + The Machine, Nick Cave, Lykke Li, Oklou, Habibi Funk, DJ Gigola, Ana Frango Elétrico.
GENER8ION: VISIONS OF 2034
At 180 The Strand, GENER8ION’s VISIONS OF 2034 is all about cinema, music and visual art, imagining a future that feels disturbingly close to the present.
LOST (Labyrinth Original Sound Track) is FMR’s Memory Artifact
Built on a promise to writer J.L. Borges, the labyrinth carries FMR's ongoing legacy. Bianca Peruzzi and Luca Giudici built LOST, an afterlife vision based on perceptual possibility.
Adriatica Contemporanea presents 'Infinito Pratico'
From August 1 to 25, San Benedetto del Tronto hosts Infinito Pratico, organized by Adriatica Contemporanea. Eleven artists interrogate repetition, locality, and Leopardi metaphysical legacy at Palazzina Azzurra, connecting past conceptual lineages to immediate regional realities.
A Week in Sibiu: Feeric Fashion Week 2026
Feeric Fashion Week takes Sibiu apart and gives it to designers. A museum, three parking levels, two factories, a village, and a medieval square become runways for schools and labels arriving from more than fifteen countries.
Jamie XX and Solomun at Pacha Ibiza
Pacha's walls still remember the night Jamie xx and Solomun traded rhythms until sunrise, one playful and open, the other deep and relentless, together rewriting what a b2b can sound like.
TOKYO BURNSIDE Brings REBEL RAMEN to Paris, with a Yatai by Willo Perron
Nearly three years in the making, REBEL RAMEN landed in Paris with a cart drawn by Willo Perron, a sound system built by Matéo Garcia, and two bowls that argue for restraint and excess in equal measure.
Berlin Fashion Week Spring Summer 2027
Berlin Fashion Week SS27 took place across four days and iconic venues citywide, uniting Orange Culture, Buzigahill, Andrej Gronau, Kasia Kucharska, Selva Huygens, sample030 and John Lawrence Sullivan in a season defined by identity and transformation.
Best way to celebrate Midsummer: Solstice Festival 2026
Nordic midsummer has always been a negotiation with light: how long can you hold it, how much can the body take before sleep wins. At Ruka, Kuusamo, Solstice Festival removes the question entirely. The sun does not set. The fell rises above the treeline. The reindeer cross when they want. You adjust.
(Future) Paradise Gardens: growing the present after twenty years of Biennale Gherdëina in Val Gardena
(Future) Paradise Gardens. The tenth edition of Biennale Gherdëina inaugurates in the heart of the Dolomites as a diffuse event running until 13 September.
'Dal sonno' by Nicola Maria Patitucci
The exhibition Dal sonno by Nicola Maria Patitucci, hosted by Cane Studio, examines the perception and implications of the unconscious, converting the dream state into an intimate and unsettling visual journey.
Cezar Mocan exhibition at SOLO CSV
At SOLO CSV in Madrid, a new exhibition space has inaugurated: Basement, with works by Cezar Mocan, artist and programmer winner of SOLO AI ‘25 Award, on the limits of data technologies.
Listening Beyond Ourselves at FIBER Festival 2026
In its 11th edition, Amsterdam-based FIBER Festival made this tension its focus of inquiry through its theme, Fragile Forces.
Craft and Innovation: Fashion in Helsinki 2026
Helsinki in late May: five days of shows, ateliers, studios and one awards night, where a young generation of Finnish designers proved that craftsmanship and innovation can move in the same direction. COEVAL was there to see it.
The Silence of the Mole, new film by Jakub Jansa at 61st Venice Biennale
‘The Silence of the Mole’ reimagines a folkloric icon as a Marxist underdog. The film investigates the Kafkaesque machinery of national representation at the Biennale, where muted instruments signal a refusal to serve cultural diplomacy and statecraft.
'Strange Rules' Mat Dryhurst and Holly Herndon at Palazzo Diedo Venice
Mat Dryhurst makes software the way others make manifestos. Curated alongside Holly Herndon, Hans Ulrich Obrist, and Adriana Rispoli, his Attention Guild installation at Palazzo Diedo is the clearest version yet of what he calls protocol art: a parliament of humans and agents, and a gift economy that runs.
A Place in the Sun by Genti Korini at the Albanian Pavilion's Biennale
Genti Korini resurrects early 20th-century avant-garde research to critique the exoticization of Albania. By staging an archival Russian parody, he exposes the failure of language to capture the other.
SEAWORLD VENICE by Florentina Holzinger
What remains after provocation? Reading SEAWORLD VENICE by Florentina Holzinger.
Rewire Festival: The Hague's Beautiful Experiment in Sonic Chaos
Four days of pure experimentation, local heroes and international heavyweights sharing the same city. Blawan live, Batu, Torus, Aaron Dilloway's noise rituals, Caterina Barbieri's modular worlds, Oneohtrix Point Never and Freeka Tet's audiovisual fever dream, KMRU's field recordings turned seismic. This is what adventurous music looks like when it's done right.